Wang Hao-te

Who was Wang Hao-te?

Wang Hao-te was the founder of the Great Way of Maitreya, which is based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. According to Taiwan's survey in 2004 this religion has 1000,000 members and 2000 temples all over the world. Wang was born in 1921, the 28th day of the 7th lunar month in a small village called Zhang Gu in Shandong province in China. He went to Taiwan when he was 17 years old during the 2nd War time and he was introduced to Yiguandao in 1948 by chance. He was a hardworking, well loved and down to earth talented young man and he was the only person appointed to take care of Sun Su Zhen or "Shi Mu" 師母 when he was 23 years old, the great mistress of Yiguandao for 11 years until her death in 1975, 4 April.

In 1987, Wang set up the Providence Maitreya Buddha Institute in Hsinchu, Taiwan to continue "Shi Mu's unfinished mission". Wang went on to spread the mission and vision of the religion that was empowered and entrusted by Shi Mu to him without any delaying in his living years. Unfortunately, Wang died of CO2 poisoning on Christmas Day in 1999 during his mission to Chiang Mai, Thailand; left his only daughter Wu Xian.